Well, I'm sure that literally tens of you have been waiting with baited breath to find out whether my very own banking crisis was resolved, and I'm pleased to inform you that my card did arrive, several days after my last post, complete with a letter telling me that my old card 'would expire shortly'! (They could've at least edited the letter, or sent out an apology for a cock up like that). Never mind, I told myself, no point dwelling on trivial matters such as this. Now that my card had arrived I would be able to purchase things on the good old reliable internet again. Joy!
So off I went to Amazon, where I decided to order a much anticipated and highly recomm
ended game that I'd been after since before Christmas, Professor Layton and The Curious Village, from what appeared to be a trusted and highly rated seller, and at a reasonable price (much more reasonable than the £60 that Amazon were asking for). Oh how I was wrong. The game took about a week to arrive, much longer than most items I order off there take. I then noticed something else was a bit off when the game arrived, in a somewhat flimsy looking plastic bag rather than one of the much more sturdy and reliable Jiffy bags that games and books usually arrive in. Upon opening the package I find considerably less than I normally expect to find - no reciept, no bubble wrap or any form of protection, no thankyou letter - just the game. And when I open the game, I find minimal instructions, and that the cover is a suspicious mix of German warning messages, dodgy looking pixelated artwork and a Nintendo 'Orighinal (sic) Seal of Quality'. Something fishy going on here already, and I've not even played the game yet.
Unsuprisingly, upon insterting the cartridge into my DS up pops the message: "Could not read data. Turn off the power and reinsert the card". Great. Despite the old school trick of blowing on the cartridge giving me a whole 3 levels worth of play, the game tells me that I can't save the game either, for a similar reason. Oh well. Suppose I'll just have to try to get in contact with the seller now, which should be much fun, given the dodginess of the packaging.So off I went to Amazon, where I decided to order a much anticipated and highly recomm
ended game that I'd been after since before Christmas, Professor Layton and The Curious Village, from what appeared to be a trusted and highly rated seller, and at a reasonable price (much more reasonable than the £60 that Amazon were asking for). Oh how I was wrong. The game took about a week to arrive, much longer than most items I order off there take. I then noticed something else was a bit off when the game arrived, in a somewhat flimsy looking plastic bag rather than one of the much more sturdy and reliable Jiffy bags that games and books usually arrive in. Upon opening the package I find considerably less than I normally expect to find - no reciept, no bubble wrap or any form of protection, no thankyou letter - just the game. And when I open the game, I find minimal instructions, and that the cover is a suspicious mix of German warning messages, dodgy looking pixelated artwork and a Nintendo 'Orighinal (sic) Seal of Quality'. Something fishy going on here already, and I've not even played the game yet.Maybe good old Nottingham Forest will cheer my blues once more. Since my last post, they've achieved the impossible: 2 consecutive back to back league wins, lifting them out of the relegation zone! Oh, and they beat the world's richest club on thier own patch, or something....
